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Dorothy Johnston

Who: Dorothy Johnston. Where: Canberra, Australia. What: Dorothy’s an award winning Australian novelist. She’s written eight novels, one of which, The Trojan Dog, won the ACT Book of the Year prize in 2001. She has also written a collection of short stories, The Division of Love. She was born in Geelong, Victoria and trained as [...]

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Creative Writing Workshop - Rachel Ephraim

Rachel Ephraim is a creative writing instructor for Writopia Lab, a non-profit organization that holds writing workshops for kids 8-18. She is also Founder and Director of FreeBird Workshops, a grassroots workshop for adults in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently getting her M.F.A. from Columbia University and is working on her first novel, which is [...]

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Rebecca Clay Haynes

Who: Rebecca Clay Haynes Where: Santa Fe, New Mexico until mid-December. Rebecca recently ran away from home and is traveling between global writer/artist residencies on a low-cost literary and spiritual quest. Southeast Asia next spring, Europe for the summer and South America next fall. What: A longtime journalist, Rebecca now focuses on writing fiction and, [...]

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Larry Specht

Who: Larry Specht Where: Washington, DC What: Larry has just completed a novel: Now Appearing in Baghdad. It’s a black comedy about an American software salesman who winds up in Baghdad a year after the US invasion. He figures he is the ultimate hip war profiteer, but pretty quickly he’s in way over his head [...]

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John Clanchy

Who: John Clanchy. Where: Canberra, Australia. What: John has written seven volumes of fiction (novels, novellas and short stories). His work has won awards in Europe, the US, New Zealand, and Australia. His novel The Hard Word (2002) was awarded the ACT Book of the Year and Vincenzo’s Garden (2005), a collection of prize-winning short [...]

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